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Join the world's leading museum of art and design, V&A, to enrich lives and protect treasures as a valued member of the Safety and Security team.
Overview
Salary
£27528
Location
Cromwell Road, London
Expires
Expires at anytime
The V&A is world's leading museum of art and design, creating an enriching environment that promotes research, knowledge, and enjoyment of the designed world to a broad audience. As part of the V&A's Safety and Security team, you'll have a vital role in safeguarding our collections, structures, visitors, and staff across different V&A estates. This includes:
- Administrative support to the Security Administration Manager and the Senior Health & Safety Advisor.
- Overseeing and improving the management of crucial and private data.
- Multitasking in a dynamic environment, including meeting coordination and minute taking at a senior level.
- Engaging in practical tasks and collaborative projects across the V&A estate. Prior experience with manual & IT-based office systems is preferred.
Benefits offered include a generous pension scheme, flexible working, V&A exhibition tickets, bike loans, a wide range of training opportunities, and much more. This is a fixed-term, part-time position based in South Kensington and some travel to other V&A sites may be necessary.
The V&A commits to equality, diversity, and inclusion and particularly welcomes applications from disabled individuals, providing a supportive and inclusive recruitment process.
The Role The Safety and Security team work to protect our people, visitors, collections, and buildings across the V&A estate. We are looking for a proactive, organised individual to provide administrative and information management support to the team. Working to the Security Administration Manager, and supporting the Senior Health & Safety Advisor, you will be responsible for the management of statutory and sensitive data, seeking to improve the way this information is gathered, handled, and shared. You will have experience of manual and IT based office systems, a confident meeting minutes taker and used to supporting the work of multiple committees to a senior level. You will be prepared to undertake practical tasks and be part of wider project delivery across the V&A's estate. This is a fixed-term, part-time post based at the V&A South Kensington but will involve some travel to the V&A's other sites.
The V&A The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance. Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience.
Benefits Generous pension scheme 29 days plus bank holidays Flexible working Tickets to V&A exhibitions Subsidised staff canteen 25% discount in V&A shops Give as you earn scheme Bicycle loan Interest-free season ticket Interest-free rental deposit loan Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike Wide range of training and professional development opportunities Employee Assistance Programme Staff diversity networks
ED&I at The V&A At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010. As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications: The Guaranteed Interview Scheme – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities; Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job. Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.
